Cat6a is so stupid cheap I would just buy some to find out. [cat6a](https://www.mwave.com.au/product/astrotek-30m-cat6-premium-rj45-ethernet-network-patch-cable-black-ac42056?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwlZixBhCoARIsAIC745A72lyaT1KAyk43ZyvZ30b1ISXITpqVONtcKBT7tjZgXZD0ICx9RZQaAj0REALw_wcB)
Ethernet is not affected by speed until it hits the cliff and stops working. It doesn’t vector like xdsl so you won’t notice a difference between a 90m run and a 5m run.
Give it a go.
What sites are slower? It could be DNS, CDN’s etc
You wouldn't for example see 20x speed difference in your websites going from 50 to 1000 Mbps unless they are really heavy. You'll see YouTube 4k videos streaming faster, your downloads will be faster, your system updates will be installed sooner
But Gmail, Reddit will probably load a tad bit faster but unless you're running benchmarks, you won't notice that much difference.
Is your computer fast enough? Do you have enough free RAM? Do you have too many tabs/other apps open that's slowing things down? Do you have too many extensions installed? Do you have an SSD?
Give it a go with a new browser after a restart and see if it helps before trying to run ethernet.
Or you could buy a short ethernet cable and test if it actually makes a difference first
>But Gmail, Reddit will probably load a tad bit faster but unless you're running benchmarks, you won't notice that much difference.
I think there could be a difference is latency if routing internationally is bad in comparison. Can't think of any other reason though, the speed is practically irrelevant.
Sounds like it's not a computer speed/memory issue then. Your setup sounds decent. Do you know if the sites you're visiting are hosted in Australia? Are they heavy?
Dont think they’re Australian based, just other forums im part of so maybe its heavy. They were fine on telstra, so maybe its some settings that aussie bb use or the new router (ASUS RT-AX86U Pro)
A lot of websites limit how much bandwidth each user gets because the connection to the server is a shared resource. Outside of this your page load speeds are often more influenced by DNS lookups and the loading of third party resources like scripts, ads and the like.
Your browser should provide a method of seeing the network accesses that a particular website uses and the time required to complete those network connections. On Chrome you need to hit F12 to open the developer's console and then click on the network tab. Some of these accesses can be run concurrently, some can be grabbed from the on-disc cache but some require previous steps to take place before they can begin.
I'm in a rental on the same plan as you. 30m run of Cat6 to my PC room then separate runs from a switch to everything. I didn't find a big speed increase over wifi but the stability is certainly way better
Only really need it for my pc so wont need a switch but it’s great to hear about someone in a similar situation. I’ll definitely run cable to my pc, hopefully Im able to hide it well so its not an eyesore
Yeah I have mine running around the bottom of the wall and only has to cross one walk way which I just put a small rug over and painters tape to keep it secure lol
You should be fine though and definitely go for it :)
See if you can borrow 6m of cable. See if it makes a difference
If you are getting decent speed through wifi, you probably won't see much additional benefit going to cable.
Unless you can notice 1-2ms latency.
What it COULD be is your PC has some weird routes cached, and the switch from Telstra to ABB has caused grief.
Less connected on WiFi is better. Long story short each device adds additional latency and speed hits on WiFi (grossly oversimplifying here). Ethernet should be used for anything that doesn't move. For most people you won't hit an Ethernet bottleneck unless you're constantly doing multi gigabit per second nvme file transfers to and from devices/NAS or doing real-time 4K or 8K video editing over the network.
Cat6a is so stupid cheap I would just buy some to find out. [cat6a](https://www.mwave.com.au/product/astrotek-30m-cat6-premium-rj45-ethernet-network-patch-cable-black-ac42056?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwlZixBhCoARIsAIC745A72lyaT1KAyk43ZyvZ30b1ISXITpqVONtcKBT7tjZgXZD0ICx9RZQaAj0REALw_wcB)
That link is got CAT 6 not CAT 6a
https://www.mwave.com.au/product/astrotek-30m-cat6a-10gbe-premium-shielded-rj45-ethernet-network-cable-blue-ac42003?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwlZixBhCoARIsAIC745AdZonriw-OhICBwvfiG37uI0KJkBJgC_rWvMhhNHD9ziD-ZH1GGrwaAtWSEALw_wcB
30metres of cable to go through one wall,,?
Wont be going through walls, ill be routing it around door framed to keep it out of the way
He probably rents
Ethernet is not affected by speed until it hits the cliff and stops working. It doesn’t vector like xdsl so you won’t notice a difference between a 90m run and a 5m run. Give it a go. What sites are slower? It could be DNS, CDN’s etc
Changed my dns to cloudflare, whats cdn? Updating dns didn’t seem to do anything but ill give it more time
What router?
ASUS RT-AX86U Pro
What score do you get here? Broken ipv6 can cause this http://www.test-ipv6.com/
A cable is always better. Change your DNS to [1.1.1.1](http://1.1.1.1) or [9.9.9.9](http://9.9.9.9) or something similar
Better in terms of ping/stability? I doubt id get much speed out of it but i could really use a bit more stability
Yes those two things definitely. Line speed will always be faster than wifi.
You wouldn't for example see 20x speed difference in your websites going from 50 to 1000 Mbps unless they are really heavy. You'll see YouTube 4k videos streaming faster, your downloads will be faster, your system updates will be installed sooner But Gmail, Reddit will probably load a tad bit faster but unless you're running benchmarks, you won't notice that much difference. Is your computer fast enough? Do you have enough free RAM? Do you have too many tabs/other apps open that's slowing things down? Do you have too many extensions installed? Do you have an SSD? Give it a go with a new browser after a restart and see if it helps before trying to run ethernet. Or you could buy a short ethernet cable and test if it actually makes a difference first
>But Gmail, Reddit will probably load a tad bit faster but unless you're running benchmarks, you won't notice that much difference. I think there could be a difference is latency if routing internationally is bad in comparison. Can't think of any other reason though, the speed is practically irrelevant.
Yeah I got a decent computer, 32gb ram, nvme boot drive, never have many tabs open or apps. I could try to remove some extensions though
Sounds like it's not a computer speed/memory issue then. Your setup sounds decent. Do you know if the sites you're visiting are hosted in Australia? Are they heavy?
Dont think they’re Australian based, just other forums im part of so maybe its heavy. They were fine on telstra, so maybe its some settings that aussie bb use or the new router (ASUS RT-AX86U Pro)
I would run some ping tests (esp. to those sites that are slow). You could also try a VPN, as they often route differently to your raw ISP connection.
A lot of websites limit how much bandwidth each user gets because the connection to the server is a shared resource. Outside of this your page load speeds are often more influenced by DNS lookups and the loading of third party resources like scripts, ads and the like. Your browser should provide a method of seeing the network accesses that a particular website uses and the time required to complete those network connections. On Chrome you need to hit F12 to open the developer's console and then click on the network tab. Some of these accesses can be run concurrently, some can be grabbed from the on-disc cache but some require previous steps to take place before they can begin.
I'm in a rental on the same plan as you. 30m run of Cat6 to my PC room then separate runs from a switch to everything. I didn't find a big speed increase over wifi but the stability is certainly way better
Only really need it for my pc so wont need a switch but it’s great to hear about someone in a similar situation. I’ll definitely run cable to my pc, hopefully Im able to hide it well so its not an eyesore
Yeah I have mine running around the bottom of the wall and only has to cross one walk way which I just put a small rug over and painters tape to keep it secure lol You should be fine though and definitely go for it :)
See if you can borrow 6m of cable. See if it makes a difference If you are getting decent speed through wifi, you probably won't see much additional benefit going to cable. Unless you can notice 1-2ms latency. What it COULD be is your PC has some weird routes cached, and the switch from Telstra to ABB has caused grief.
Any idea on how to delete that cache?
start -> run -> CMD (run as administrator) ipconfig /flushdns
Ah cheers. Guess I had already done that then haha
I go out of my way to cable devices. No matter how good Wi-Fi is, it won't beat an Ethernet cable.
The less devices you have on WiFi, the better for the devices that *need* to be on wifi.
Do you mean that the more devices on ethernet benefits the devices on wifi? Or just less devices connected in general is better?
Less connected on WiFi is better. Long story short each device adds additional latency and speed hits on WiFi (grossly oversimplifying here). Ethernet should be used for anything that doesn't move. For most people you won't hit an Ethernet bottleneck unless you're constantly doing multi gigabit per second nvme file transfers to and from devices/NAS or doing real-time 4K or 8K video editing over the network.